A gigantic map of all the cool plaques in the world. A project of 99% Invisible.

Sylvan Lake Park

SYLVAN LAKE PARKEstablished in 1993 as an official U.S. Soccer Federation Training site. In 1994 designated as an official World Cup Training site. National teams from Canada, China,...

  • soccer
  • olympics

Bendel Housekeeper's Home

318 Clinton Street  Built c: 1900    Architectural Style: Victorian Shingle/Eastlake    This house was built by Henri Bendel (1868-1936) for his beloved, long- time housekeeper. Henri was...

  • louisiana
  • lafayette parish

Pavy Studio

210 Gordon Street  Built: c. 1950  Architectural Style: Vernacular Storefront     Pavy Studio was originally built as a residence and converted to a retail shop sometime in the late 1940s. It is...

  • louisiana
  • art studio
  • lafayette parish

Fausse Point of Bayou Teche / Fausse-Pointe du Bayou Tèche

<br>About 200 destitute Acadians, former prisoners of the British in Halifax, Nova Scotia, arrived in New Orleans in February 1765. Offered fertile land in the Attakapas District of what is now...

  • louisiana
  • acadians
  • cajuns
  • iberia parish

Alice Plantation House

Circa: 1790   Built by Agricole Fuselier de la Claire, a planter and cousin of A. B. Roman, Governor of Louisiana (1831-1835, 1839-1843). The house was floated up Bayou Teche from Baldwin to its...

  • louisiana
  • plantation
  • iberia parish

New Acadia / Nouvelle Acadie

In Spring 1765, during the Spanish Rule of Louisiana, approximately 200 Acadian refugees representing 60 families were settled here on the Teche Ridge in three encampments along the...

  • louisiana
  • cajun
  • iberia parish

David Marquez Gurule

THIS GROVE IS DEDICATED IN MEMORY OF DAVID MARQUEZ GURULE MEMORIES... OF LAUGHING EYES & SIMPLE WAYS, OF QUILT NIGHTS AND GENTLE DAYS WITH YOU

    Fresno - Djambul

      Beattie Square

      BEATTIE SQUARE .012 ACRE Beattie Square is named in memory of Joseph S. Beattie, who lived at 247 Schenectady Avenue in Brooklyn. Beattie served as a Private in Company G of the 305th Infantry...

      • new york
      • brooklyn
      • bedford-stuyvesant
      • bed-stuy
      • bushwick
      • joseph beattie
      • world war i
      • anton vigelius
      • mary vigelius
      • 1884
      • 1921
      • 1924

      Frank Olt - Gothic Circle

      Frank Olt   Gothic Circle   1992 Ceramic relief and glass mosaic   Commissioned by Metropolitan Transportation Authority Arts for Transit and MTA New York City TransitSubmitted by @lampbane

      • new york
      • queens
      • hunter's point
      • court square
      • frank olt
      • mta
      • art
      • mosaic
      • 1992

      Elizabeth Murray - Stream

      Elizabeth Murray   Stream   2001   Glass mosaic   Fabricated by Miotto Mosaics, Inc.   Commissioned by Metropolitan Transportation Authority Arts for Transit and owned by MTA New York...

      • new york
      • queens
      • hunter's point
      • court square
      • elizabeth murray
      • mosaic
      • mta
      • subway
      • 2001

      Ten Eyck Playground

      TEN EYCK PLAYGROUND .972 ACRE   This playground and the adjoining street are named for Coenradt Ten Eyck (1617-1686), a settler in the New Amsterdam colony. He was born in 1617 in Moers, Germany,...

      • new york
      • brooklyn
      • williamsburg
      • playground
      • coenradt ten eyck
      • 1645
      • 1651
      • 1686
      • 1802
      • richard woodhull
      • 1828
      • 1852
      • 2017

      Jessie Burnham Williams

        Paul Fierens

          Paul-Henri Spaak